Daily Inspiration Quote by Jay Alan Sekulow

“I wouldn’t pretend” is doing the heavy lifting here: a pre-emptive shrug dressed up as candor. Sekulow’s line is less a confession than a controlled release of pressure. It concedes the obvious (high-powered legal work costs real money) while framing that reality as something only a naïf would deny. The phrasing implies there’s been an accusation in the air - grift, profiteering, donor exploitation - and he’s meeting it with a weapon lawyers love: strategic understatement.

The subtext is transactional, and it’s aimed at two audiences at once. To critics, it signals: yes, we’re paid, and we’re not ashamed; stop acting surprised. To supporters, it reframes payment as professionalism, even inevitability. “Well” isn’t just an adverb, it’s a badge: serious cases require serious talent, and serious talent gets compensated. That’s how you launder the optics of big fees into the language of competence.

Context matters because Sekulow sits at the crossroads of politics, media, and legal advocacy - spaces where fundraising and litigation blur into one continuous performance. In that ecosystem, money is always the story, even when it’s not the stated one. This sentence tries to close the loop before someone else does, converting a potential scandal into a matter-of-fact norm. It’s a classic defensive move: concede a small point loudly to avoid conceding the larger one quietly - whether the spending aligns with the mission, or merely with the brand.